Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-26
THE ATTEMPT TO CRUSH RURAL FAIRS
The San Francisco Post saws

ne San i TdnClSCO L OSJ says.
The SACRAMENTO REcoRD-U UNION is distressed
and indignant because the Mechanics Institute
Is preparing to extend the scope of its exhibi-
ton this year.
The Reconnaissance protest is not
against any possibility of great achieve
ment by the Mechanics Institute Fair
syndicate. The Mechanics Institute
proper has nothing to do with it, 1t
does protest, however, against the un-
manly action of that syndicate in covering
the dates of District Fairs and the State
Fair with the dates of the San Francisco
concern. In doing so the San Francisco
private corporation, with gross Indifference
to its obligations, violated an understand
ing arrived at year ago jointly with the
San Francisco Board of Trade, the Sacra-
mento Board of Trade and the State Board
of Agriculture, that after the exhibition of
1886 there should be no conflict of dates
between the two fairs.
In the face of this agreement, the San
Franciscosyndicate has industriously placed
its dates early and late, preventing the
possibility Of exhibitors attending with
their exhibits at both places. To declare
that this is fair, honest, decent, manly, not
even our contemporary the Post can be
brought to do. Its own sense of Justice.
and its concern for the best interests of
the whole State, convince us that the wise
policy is to conserve both fairs. 1t saws:
1t is wrong to make the date of the Mechanics
Fair conflict with that of the State FAIR and
that fault should be remedied.
\ journal that has such clear conception
of the wrong" done in fixing the San
Francisco date, excites surprise by saving
The REcoRD-UNIoN looks upon the attempt
OF San Francisco to maintain a general
exhibition of the products of the coast
as display OF objectionable selfishneSs and an
eiloIt 10 keep visitors away from the interior by
produc ng the impression that the metropolis is
the whole State. We assure our friends of the
Capital that the people here have no such dia-
b0lical intentions.
If the motives Of men are to be arrived
at by judging their deeds, and accepting
their declarations, then the action at San
Francisco is an attempt to crush District
Fairs and the State Fair. If it is "wrong''
to cross dates as the Post admits, then the
motive that prompted such action is the
result of objectionable selishness," and
certainly is the outcome of deliberate
scheme to keep visitors away from the
rural fairs. We submit to the fair iudg-
ment OF ringenious contemporary, whose
heart is right upon this question, that this
IS perfectly iustifable and logical con-
clusion.
The Post further on says:
AS local exhibition, the Mechanics Fair ad-
Nertlses only San Francisco as n general one il
VIII advertise the whole State. II is for the
very purpose OF showing the passing stranger
That we have n splendid empire outside of The
cltN That the change is 10 be made In
stead Of boyeoiting san Francisco for thus sup
pismentlng the work of the State and local ex-
hlbitons, the agricultural districts could afford
TO pay it handsomely.
Our contemporary, though having read
the RBcoRD-UNIoN's protests, appears to
have overlooked the distinct and unequivo-
cal declarations which this journal made
that No one wishes the Mechanics Insti
tute Fair at San Francisco to fail. 1t ought
to succeed to the full limit of its legitimate
purpose <
There is room enough and time enough for
both of these fairs. That summer expo
sitlon IN San Francisco should be held no
one sainsays. That it will be productive
OF coed results is not question to be de-
bated- But that it should trench upon
the date OF the State Society, or endearor
TO strip from the latter any of its oppor-
tunities to maintain an exhibition credit
able to the State and conducive to its de-
velopments is indefensible.D
The Post disclaims, in behalf of the peo-
pie of San Francisco, any intention on their
part to injure the interior or cripple their
expositions. The RECORD UNION is in
clined to concur. But it is marvellous that
men assuming 70 represent the people of
San Francisco so woefully hetray their
trusts. If the people of that city do
not desire, and are not party to the scheme
to run the private enterprise fair in oppo-
sition TO the country fairs, viii our esteemed
contemporary explain how it is, that aside
from It's own admission Of the wrong done
IN fixing the dates, and the expression Of
NJ. D. Boruck, no San Francisco intelIi-
gence has seen ii to condemn the outrage
contemplated and thus far carried out oy
the Institute syndicate?
The action OF the Instituxe Fair mana
gers is, we repeat, the result q deliber-
ate and long premeditsted sehease to crush
out other fairs. The management knows
that the State Agricultural Soeiesy's ex-
position must lie seasoasble one, 10 ac-
commodate farmer, vine-grower, orchard
list and stock-raiser. 1t has been proved
by experience that the fair must lie
held about the middle of September.
Knowing these facts, the San Francisco
have Tapped their dates so far
beyond, and SO much in advance Of the